VSE ERROR com.itko.util.Pulse - Error calling object pulse() java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

1. After running a couple of days seeing VSE crash. 
2. Log files provided were showing: 

2018-05-09 11:08:59,011Z (11:08) [Event Sink Thread Pool Thread 4] ERROR com.itko.util.Pulse - Error calling object pulse() 
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space 

Environment

All supported DevTest releases.

Cause

N/A

Resolution

1. Needed to change logging.properties file to be INFO and not DEBUG, since too many DEBUG messages filling up the logs. 

    log4j.rootCategory=INFO,A1

2. Added -Xms2048m to VirtualServiceEnvironment.vmoptions file. 

3. Restarted the VSE container and getting Too many open files. 

4. Needed to set the open files soft and hard limits on machine to 10240, was at 1024. 

VSE came up with no errors.